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My kids struggle with math. And it is not my best subject. So I came up with a game to make learning the equations more fun. I have four children and all of them are at different levels. 1-4th grade. With this game we can all play it together but still be challenged at our own level. I posted a picture of all you will need. I used empty cups from the crystal light. School Glue. Black construction paper or card stock, A Gold acrylic paint pen, or a white out pen, and the canaster to hold the crystal light, and scissors. I glued black paper in so the numbers are not seen on the reverse side. I wrote numbers on the paper with a gold deco color pen. If you don’t have a pen like that, they sell them at Michaels and are not too expensive, you can also use a white out pen. It is less expensive and works just as great as you can see with the number 8 I made. If you have just one level, you can write equations, then the kids have to match them but have to answer the question in a specific time to collect the cups. For my kids I used just numbers. Now my 6 year old can add the numbers to get the right answer and my 4th grader can multiply the same numbers to get the cups. I can even use it for division and subtraction if I don’t use anything other then numbers. And the containers for the crystal light are a perfect place to store the game when you are done playing it!

So the rules:

Youngest goes first

play goes clock wise

on your turn: turn over two cups multiply, subtract, add, or divide the numbers to get the right answer in less then 30 seconds. (As the parent you set what each child has to do, so there is no easy way out. Remember it is a game but you want to help them learn their math facts faster.)

If you get it right you keep the cups.

play ends when all cups are gone and winner is the one with the most cups.